Apraxia research - contact me if interested

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Date: Sun Jun 4, 2006 9:48 pm

Subject: Apraxia research - contact me if interested

Many of you have probably figured out that I have a medical

background. (But

I've been posting as a mom, and not as an MD - since my medical

background

has not helped me much here - except to know how to fight the

system).

I am a pediatrician in the bay area specializing in pediatric

emergency

medicine, but also am involved in research mainly in asthma, sickle

cell

disease, thalassemia and various forms of pulmonary hypertension.

For those

who haven't read my posts, I found this site because I have a

globally

apraxic, adorable nearly 3 year old son with SID and low tone, and

found

very few answers with regards to my son's condition despite my

medical

background. My boy has made amazing progress with the help of high

dose fish

oil (thank God for The Late Talker), and quickly regresses off of

them.

Some of my clinical trials have focused on using a dietary supplement

(arginine) to improve pain, pulmonary complications etc in patients

with

sickle cell disease, and I am the research director for our

pediatric

emergency medicine fellowship - which basically means I mentor young

physicians through a research project. Since I study amino acids and

markers of inflammation, much of what I've been reading on omega

supplements

has been fascinating - as some of the possible mechanisms involved

fall into

my area of expertise...just never studied it in developmental

disorders.

Anyway I have been talking to